Fig. 1. Location of beaches used by eastern Canada Piping Plovers breeding in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (squares) and South Nova Scotia (circles) from 1998 to 2003, with associated population abundance trends between 1991 and 2005 as indicated by the standardized annual population survey (black) and international census (gray) data (see Amirault 2005). Recovery goals for each population segment are also noted (dashed lines; Amirault 2006). Regions within the Gulf population segment are: AC (Acadian peninsula, northern New Brunswick), NBNS (southern New Brunswick and northern Nova Scotia), NF (Newfoundland), PEI (Prince Edward Island), and QC (Magdalen Islands, Quebec).